Ishi Press

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Ishi Press was the first major publisher of English-language go books. Many of their titles are now out of print, although Kiseido have since republished a number of them. Ishi Press itself has only published one new book since 1994.

The following is a (complete?) list of Ishi Press go books. Those with codes beginning with H (except perhaps H7) were only distributed by, not published by, Ishi Press. Note that the codes G20, G38 and G39 were never used.

 G1   Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Volume 1
 G2   Basic Techniques of Go *
 G3   Modern Joseki and Fuseki, Volume 2
 G4   Go - International Handbook and Dictionary
 G5   The Middle Game of Go
 G6   Strategic Concepts of Go *
 G7   The 1971 Honinbo Tournament *
 G8   Go for Beginners
 G9   Go Para Principiantes
 G10  In the Beginning *
 G11  38 Basic Joseki *
 G12  Tesuji *
 G13  Life and Death *
 G14  Attack and Defense *
 G15  The Endgame *
 G16  Handicap Go *
 G17  Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go *
 G18  Test Your Go Strength
 G19  The Breakthrough to Shodan
 G20  unused
 G21  Dictionary of Basic Joseki, Volume 1 *
 G22  Dictionary of Basic Joseki, Volume 2 *
 G23  Dictionary of Basic Joseki, Volume 3 *
 G24  Enclosure Josekis
 G25  Appreciating Famous Games *
 G26  The Direction of Play *
 G27  Kato's Attack and Kill
 G28  Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go *
 G29  Reducing Territorial Frameworks *
 G30  An Introduction to Go?
 G31  The Second Book of Go *
 G32  The Power of the Starpoint
 G33  The Chinese Opening *
 G34  All about Thickness (softcover)
 G34H All about Thickness (hardcover)
 G35  The Great Joseki Debates
 G36  Opening Theory Made Easy *
 G37  Beyond Forcing Moves
 G38  unused
 G39  unused
 G40  The Go Player's Almanac *
 G41  The Magic of Go
 G42  All about Life and Death, Volume 1
 G43  All about Life and Death, Volume 2
 G44  The 3-3 Point: Modern Opening Strategy *
 G45  Positional Judgment *
 G46  Cho Hunhyun - Life and Master Games
 H1   Invincible: The Games of Shusaku (hardcover) *
 H2   The Treasure Chest Enigma
 H3   Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume 1 *
 H4   Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume 2 *
 H5   Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume 3 *
 H6   Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Volume 4 *
 H7   Mathematical Go Endgames

The books with an * have been reissued by Kiseido, with a K-prefix replacing the G-prefix for the G-prefix series. H1 is now K01, H3-H6 now K46-K49.

Bob McGuigan For what it's worth, Invincible--The Games of Shusaku was the first publication of the Kiseido Publishing Company and was published in 1982 when Ishi Press still existed and functioned.


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